1 . A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaining about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of _________ — porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain-looking and _________, some delicate (精致的) and expensive — telling them to _________ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you _________, all the nice-looking and expensive cups were _________, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is _________for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the _________ of your problems and stress. It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. _______ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the _________ cups. And then you began __________ each other’s cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and __________ in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and __________ life, and the type of cup we have does not change the __________ of life we live. Sometimes, by __________ only on the cup, we fail to __________ the coffee.

3 . Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it _________. She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive _________, but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel _________.

They’re part of a new form of the _________ economy: house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in _________ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s _________.

The travel is not all about sightseeing. The two travelers carefully _________ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to _________. But house sitting also offers a sense of _________ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like __________ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.

The couple has a high __________ rate in getting accepted as house sitters as they always go beyond the homeowner’s __________. For Jessica, that means __________ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house clean and leaving a nice small gift before __________ the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right __________,” she says.

4 . Why are younger age group so much more willing to post an offensive message on social media? Why aren’t we changing the ___________ in the actual cyberbully (网络欺凌)? That’s when I had a idea What if I gave them a chance to ___________ what they were doing? If an adolescent ___________ to post an offensive message on social media, and if I went, “Whoa! Hold on. You’re about to shoot an offensive message to someone. That can really ___________ them. Are you sure you want to post this message?”, would they still be ___________to do it?

So early this year, using my science and technology skills, I ___________ a software system. And basically, they were able to compare whether a caution which caused adolescents to consider what they were doing actually reduce their _____________ to post offensive messages.

In the end, I was able to get 1,500 _____________ trials of data. 93% of the time when adolescents _____________ a caution that says, “Whoa! You’re about to post an offensive message”, they finally ____________ their mind. I was able to ______________ the willingness to post offensive messages from 71.4% to 4.6%.

Now, the app Rethink has become widely popular. I also currently hold a patent for this ______________ idea. According to the data, Rethink has ______________ that, in those seconds, when you decide whether or not you’re going to hit “post”, the ______________ of the seconds means so much in the future. So, I encourage all of you: rethink before the damage is done. We need to slow down,______________, and consider what we’re doing.

5 . Some years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus during the rush hour. The bus was full of cold, tired people_______with one another. Two men_________at each other for being too crowded. An old woman got on, and nobody offered her a _______. Anger was in the air, no_______could be found here.

As the bus approached Seventh Avenue, the driver’s words came from the speaker. “Folks,” he said, “I know you’ve had a(n) _________day and that you are not feeling well, but I will_________. When each of you walks by before getting off, drop your___________into my palm(手掌), My route goes right by the Hudson River, into which I’ll_________them.”

Everyone burst out laughing, their faces shining with_______. The passengers who had been ignoring(忽视) each other’s________suddenly grinned (咧嘴笑) at each other.

At the next stop, just as________, the driver held out his hand, a palm up, and waited. All the________passengers performed the gesture of dropping something into his palm. The driver__________the same action at every stop that followed.

Occasionally we may sink into a grey world, but someone can________it like a ray of light, showing us hope. What if we are the light?________, anyone has the power to shine on others’ dark days.

6 . It was like finding a needle in a haystack. Shelly Romo surveyed what was _________ of her home in Maui, which was hit by a deadly wildfire, hoping to find her wedding ring, expecting to leave _________. But luckily, after three hours’ _________ with volunteers, it finally appeared, the diamond _________ but the band completely damaged. Romo and her husband went straight to No Ka’ Oi Jewelers — a local business that has been _________ fire-damaged jewelry free of charge.

No Ka’ Oi owner Omi Chamdi said he was one of the lucky ones — the fires had _______ his home and storefront. That’s why he immediately sprang into action and _______ free restorations shortly after the disaster. “When the fires here on Maui occurred, pretty _________ I decided this is something I can do and I really want to do for the _________ community.”

However, Chamdi doesn’t restore the jewelry himself; ____________ he has been paying for the restoration services. When asked if he ever ____________ that, he shook his head. “These are not just ordinary items, these are the most ____________ possessions that people go back and dig through the ____________ to find.”

____________, Romo wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the past when the fires destroyed her home. But finding her wedding ring and getting it restored gave Romo some peace about __________.

7 . A homeless man rescued all the animals at a shelter after it caught on fire, which made a local headline news. Hamlin, the _______ of the W-Underdogs shelter, told the local media.

Keith Walker, 53, a homeless man, _______ his life to save several cats and dogs _______ at an Atlanta animal shelter after it caught fire, the facility’s founder said.

“I was nervous as hell. I was really _______ to go in there with all that smoke. But God put me there to save those animals and I _______ into the shelter after a fire engulfed (吞噬) its kitchen.” Walker told the media. “If you love a dog, you can love anyone in the world. My dog is my best friend, and I wouldn’t be here _______ him, so I knew I had to save all those other dogs.”

_______ the shelter was not completely destroyed, the fire left it uninhabitable, according to W-Underdogs founder Gracie Hamlin.

“He is my guardian angel (天使),” Hamlin told the media. “Even the firefighters didn’t want to _______ the dogs. They called animal control, but Keith was already in the building _______ the cats and dogs until they were all safe.”

Hamlin ________ knew Walker, who has been homeless since he was 13 years old, because she lets him ________ his dog, a pitbull (斗牛犬) named Bravo, at the shelter every night.

Walker was on his way to ________ Bravo and take him for a walk when he saw the fire. He was able to rescue all the animals-six dogs and ten cats.

“________   the great loss, I’d like to thank him for saving my animals,” Hamlin said. “To my ________, all my animals are safe and sound. Homeless man as he is, Walker is truly my ________ .”

8 . I still remember it was some fifteen or sixteen years ago, a warm, sunny, Saturday afternoon. I ________to take my kids to the local playground. As soon as we got there my daughter headed for the ________ and asked for a play. As I was helping her to go higher and higher, I noticed another little girl trying ________ together own swing going. Her elderly grandmother was sitting ________ on a nearby bench and smiled at me.

I gave my daughter one big ________ and then walked over to the little girl and asked if she wanted a favor. She smiled and said “Yes!” I soon had her feet ________ towards the clouds while she laughed happily. For the next two hours I found myself playing on the swings and hiding and seeking with my son, daughter, and the other little girl. By the time we went home, I was ________ worn out, but my spirits was still flying higher than those swings.

Two years later I was ________ again after a long day’s work. Still, I needed to ________ my kids from the local grade school before going back home. I stood wearily in the ________ waiting area watching for my children. Suddenly, I felt two tiny arms wraparound my ________ I looked down and there was the little girl from the playground smiling up at me. She gave me one more big hug before ________off to catch her school bus. As I watched her back, I didn’t feel quite so tired anymore and my spirits were once again flying in the Heavens.

In this life every single bit of love we share ________ its way back to us again. It may travel from heart to heart or it may blossom in the soul where it was planted. It may take seconds or it may take years. The law of love, ________, is never broken. What we give, we get back, we reap what we sow. The love we share, the kindness we give, and the _________ we create will always comeback to bless us.

9 . A mom makes mini-me toys as unique as the children who embrace them.

Asa ________ worker using play therapy to help children through their cancer treatment, Amy wished she could ________ her patients with dolls that bore their all-too-familiar hair loss and surgery scars.

________ Amy left welfare work in 2011 to start a family, she still often thought of the kids. She said, “These kids need something that looks like they do.” This idea had always ________   in her mind.

Then in 2020, a mom whose daughter lost a leg to amputation (截肢) asked Amy, who was ________ with a sewing machine, if she could make a mini-me dol for the girl.

After Amy ________ a photo of the legless doll on Facebook,   ________ poured in for likeness with everything from albinism (白化病) to birthmarks. “ ________ make kids feel isolated and judged,” she says, “With the doll, a child sees ‘I am not the only one who looks this way and I’m also ________ enough to be a doll.’ ”

Amy _________ nearly 400 custom dolls at her dining-room table, with donors often covering the 100 cost through Amy’s nonprofit A Doll Like Me. The mom of three ________ making each doll herself with help from her mother and a friend.

For Keagan. 2, whose rare skin condition has ________ him in birthmarks, Amy matched the doll’s ________ exactly. “That was the most amazing thing,” says Keagan’s mom. A farther says, “I ________ like a baby when a doll came in the mail for my daughter, who was born without her lower left arm. Seeing my daughter with her doll, it makes me think about her future, not her ________ .”